Voinjama, Lofa County – The Management of the Liberia Cocoa Corporation said it is deeply troubled that the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry and the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) would publish reports that contain not only gross misrepresentations of facts, but outright lies against the Corporation and its CEO, Momolu Tolbert.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry in a damaging report, accused the Minister of Agriculture, Madam Jeanine Cooper awarded a US$298,145.42 contract to Mr. Tolbert to supply F1 hybrid Cocoa seeds to the Ministry of Agriculture. But the seeds brought by Mr. Tolbert were all dead and they were not the F1 hybrid seeds.
However, the Liberia Cocoa Corporation in a release issued recently said, it is prepared to disprove each ‘brazen lie’ presented by both the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry and the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission with documentary and photographic evidence.
Said the Corporation: “The management of Liberia Cocoa Corporation however challenged the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission to make available to the management of Liberia Cocoa Corporation or to publish for the general public the “alleged contract” for US$1.4 million that was “allegedly” and “unilaterally” awarded to Mr. Momolu Tolbert by Hon. Jeanine M. Cooper.”
It continued: The management of Liberia Cocoa Corporation wants the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry to make available to the management of Liberia Cocoa Corporation and or publish for the general public any documents and or reports that support the Senate Committee’s claim that Mr. Momolu Tolbert brought into the country “all dead cocoa seeds that were not F1 Hybrid Cocoa Seeds.”
The management said it is confident that Liberia Cocoa Corporation and its CEO, Mr. Tolbert, will be fully vindicated from these ‘shameless and politically motivated lies’ that the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry and the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission have falsely presented to the general public as truth.